Why is this guy still in business?
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's volunteer investigation into documents pertaining to President Barack Obama's place of birth and citizenship now includes the services of a taxpayer-funded ...
The lies roll off the man's lips like music off Yo-Yo Ma's cello. Both are virtuosos - one a cellist, the other a liar.
A partial list.
Bush had nothing to do ...
Happy Friday.
The best from Political Humor‘s collection of the week’s late night political humor.
"Barack Obama supports same-sex marriage. Mitt Romney doesn't even support same-sex car pools." –David Letterman
"The head of ...
Republican Rep. Mike Coffman at a Saturday afternoon fundraiser in Colorado.
I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that. But I ...
Rand Paul:
Call me cynical, but I didn’t think his [Obama's] views on marriage could get any gayer.
We won't call Rand cynical. Ignorant, bigoted asshole is more fitting. An adult using ...
Happy Friday.
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"President Obama came out with approval of same-sex marriage. He said that over the years, he has ...
I've never understood Log Cabin Republicans - gay conservatives who give their support to a homophobic political party that derides their sexuality and refuses to grant them equal rights under ...
Finally.
“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own ...
Election roundup:
Indiana.
As polls forecast, the Tea Party's efforts to cleanse the GOP of any impure conservatives has Dick Lugar out and teabagger Richard Mourdock in. Mourdock is the new Republican ...
There are lies...and then there are lies.
My own view, by the way, was that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help. And frankly, that’s finally what ...
From the papers captured last year at Osama bin Laden's Pakistani hideout comes this.
Like any public figures, bin Laden and his advisers were mindful of the media. Adam Gadahn, one ...
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"Today Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed ...
It happened to Kerry. Can it happen to Obama? Nope says Margaret Carlson.
Obama’s belief system -- in that hopey-changey business and the post-partisanship thing -- has been altered by reality. ...
Sullivan:
What do Republicans call a gay man with neoconservative passion, a committed relationship and personal courage?
A faggot.
Exactly right, but then could one expect anything different from a political party that ...
And they claim that atheists are immoral?
The ugly side of religion shows its face once again. The words below were spoken at a Sunday sermon by Sean Harris, a pastor ...
It's been fun watching conservatives and Romney twist themselves into pretzels trying to undo Mitt's past words on GM and bin Laden.
Romney, April 2007:
It’s not worth moving heaven and earth ...
In an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, a couple of scholars from liberal and conservative think tanks, discuss the state of American politics.
We have been studying Washington politics and ...
Romney's VP-in-waiting, Marco Rubio, is perfecting the conservative sleaze play.
He has proposed his version of the Dream Act in which people who entered the country illegally as children will be ...
Beyond the rhetoric, the political BS, the lies - that is, the concerted effort by the right-wing noise machine to distort and misinform at every opportunity - is the very ...
A new study shows that people feel morally cleansed when they are physically clean, and as such are more inclined to judge others more harshly.
…hundreds of participants were told to read a short passage that began, “My hair feels clean and light. My breath is fresh. My clothes are pristine and like new,” made harsher moral judgments about 16 social issues compared to those primed to feel dirty by reading a passage that read, “My hair feels oily and heavy. My breath stinks. I feel so dirty.”
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Those who held a self-image of cleanliness and purity made more harsh moral judgements on social issues. Crucially, this association was entirely mediated by their having an inflated sense of moral virtue compared with their peers.
Draw your own conclusion. I was looking for a witty finish for “cleanliness is next to ___”. Came up with nothing.
(h/t: DailyDish)
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I have an aging cat who throws up a couple of times a week, and another who is a compulsive groomer. Between his urps and her shedding and hairballs, cleanliness is next to impossible.
What an opportunity for a noble experiment. I shall eschew the use of soap, hot water, toothbrush, and deodorant for the next few weeks, then listen to both Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh. I will try to be objective and judge their moral stature while in that state of stench. I bet their opinions will still stink more than I will.
It’s just a silly cliche’. People use them to find a positive outlook in what is usually a negative point of time.
It’s always a lovely start to my day, when the first thing I read in the morning is how everything negative has to do with religion.
I was going to respond to Maggie on the Tali-ban thread but it’s closed on my end. So here, I will just say, Peace to you as well, Maggie. I was never Catholic. I sure know a lot of Catholic’s that decided being Catholic was wrong for them. I went to a Catholic church one time with a young Catholic friend, I was 15. I hated the entire experience. I think we would enjoy conversations on our experiences, but I won’t say more here. It would only annoy some folks here as this is a political thread, even though religion is always brought up. I found your feedback refreshing on the subject.
I was born into a Catholic family, but it didn’t take (I am now a Pagan minister). Spiritually and intellectually, I left the RCs before my age reached double digits, but I couldn’t do anything about it openly while I was still a child. With all the publicity about Catholic sexual abuse of children, that’s about the only form of abuse I didn’t get from the staff at the Catholic schools I attended.
…next to a visit by the in-laws? :D
I have an aging cat who throws up a couple of times a week, and another who is a compulsive groomer. Between his urps and her shedding and hairballs, cleanliness is next to impossible.
What an opportunity for a noble experiment. I shall eschew the use of soap, hot water, toothbrush, and deodorant for the next few weeks, then listen to both Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh. I will try to be objective and judge their moral stature while in that state of stench. I bet their opinions will still stink more than I will.
It’s just a silly cliche’. People use them to find a positive outlook in what is usually a negative point of time.
It’s always a lovely start to my day, when the first thing I read in the morning is how everything negative has to do with religion.
I was going to respond to Maggie on the Tali-ban thread but it’s closed on my end. So here, I will just say, Peace to you as well, Maggie. I was never Catholic. I sure know a lot of Catholic’s that decided being Catholic was wrong for them. I went to a Catholic church one time with a young Catholic friend, I was 15. I hated the entire experience. I think we would enjoy conversations on our experiences, but I won’t say more here. It would only annoy some folks here as this is a political thread, even though religion is always brought up. I found your feedback refreshing on the subject.
I was born into a Catholic family, but it didn’t take (I am now a Pagan minister). Spiritually and intellectually, I left the RCs before my age reached double digits, but I couldn’t do anything about it openly while I was still a child. With all the publicity about Catholic sexual abuse of children, that’s about the only form of abuse I didn’t get from the staff at the Catholic schools I attended.